Can't sleep tonight, and I saw this on a friend's list of communities they belong to. It seems a likely place for me to hang out, all things given... :P ( Read more... )

Swearing behind cut. ( Read more... )

Yesterday it was hot enough that we were all looking for our lightest clothes, opening windows, turning on AC, ect. It was lovely ( Read more... )

Today I spent most of the morning either in massive *lie-on-the-bathroom-floor-doing-lamaze-breathing* pain or recovering from that pain in a very washed out and shaky way. I have some sort of bowel disorder that isn't celiac sprue, allergy, crohn's, IBS, diverticulitis, or anything the doctors can figure out, I just spend a day or two or three ( Read more... )

This whole part beyond the LJ cut is pasted as-is from my own LJ (where it's filtered a little) but the backstory is that I wasn't hurting too much on Saturday (I'm not really flaring, just at my low-grade constant RA pain level that things never get better than) and thought it would be fine if I did the kite festival on Saturday and the garlic ( Read more... )

I'm 45, female and I used to be a jock. I'm sure that added to me having the arthritis docs expect to see on a much older person. I've been taking nsaids off and on for 15 years and steady for 5. My stomach has a serious attitude problem. I have severe pain and I'm living on bread, mashed potaotes, etc. How can I get pain relief with out taking ( Read more... )

I need a mobility scooter that folds and/or comes apart and that I can handle myself and haul in my car's trunk, rather than on a rack on the back of the car ( Read more... )

What the heck was I thinking having a second kid? OW. Also, my vision is REALLY wonky; good thing we signed up for vision coverage this year ( Read more... )

I made a support group at LiveJournal specifically for those of us who have to inject medication here. If this isn't okay let me know, thanks.

Warning you I'm going to cross post ( Read more... )